An archaic or dialectal term for a type of fish, particularly a bream.
From Middle English 'birt,' possibly related to 'bream' or other fish names. The etymology is uncertain but may derive from Germanic roots.
Old English fish names are mysterious because people in different regions called the same fish by completely different names—'birt' might be the name we lost when regional dialects disappeared!
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